June Park (architect)
Hilary June Park was a British architect and author known for her contributions to post-war modernist architecture and architectural writing. She worked independently and in partnership with her second husband, Cyril Mardall.
Early life and education
June Park was born in Hampstead, the daughter of the renowned British portrait photographers Bertram Park and Yvonne Gregory. From 1938 she studied architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, where she was taught by influential figures such as Felix Samuely and Frederick Gibberd.Life and career
After graduating, Park worked in the offices of Frederick Gibberd and Edward Mills, and was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1944. In 1945 she established her own architectural practice. Her early works in the modernist style included a private house in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire ; two cottages for agricultural workers near Harlow and Roydon, Essex ; and the conversion of two houses for the Finnish Legation in Belgravia, London. She also collaborated with the firm Yorke, Rosenberg & Mardall on the design of Barclay Secondary School in Stevenage.In 1951 June Park designed a new house at 7 Fitzroy Park, Highgate, London, for herself and her second husband, Cyril Mardall, as well as a slightly smaller house adjacent, for her mother-in-law. Both were concrete framed with brick infill but have since been altered. She also designed the sauna in the basement of the Finnish Seamen's Mission and Church, London, designed by Cyril Mardall in 1958. In the 1970s and 1980s June Park and Cyril Mardall worked in partnership on residential projects in the West Indies and Ireland.
Publications
June Park authored two books on modernist residential architecture:Houses and Bungalows- ''Houses for Today''